I'm not so sure, I mean.. I have a couple of games that make use of DX10 (Crysis & Bioshock) and yet I run them under XP. The only way for me to run them in fancy DX10 graphics mode would make things into a slideshow because of a simple issue in that the only DX10 capable graphics chipset I have is on my Macbook Pro. (256MB 8600M GT, use bootcamp for games)
Frankly, the only people who're seeing any advantage of DX10 are those with outrageously highend systems. (my desktop machine is decently highend, but that has a DX9 card in it.. 512MB X1900XTX)
I haven't yet seen any large amount of people move over to Vista, even those who have the midrange DX10 cards. While people will go over to Vista eventually I just don't see it happening until we start seeing games en masse coming out that are DX10 only.
Navalised Typhoons are the backup plan in-case the Americans don't come through with the F-35's flight system software, which they are somewhat bizarrely not handing over. I heard there was some progress but it all seems to have gone somewhat quiet of recent.
Apparently the UK has plans to develop a navalised Typhoon, but plans are very different from an actual plane. So, in otherwords.. if the UK doesn't get the flight software for the F35 then the UK pulls out of the JSF program, doesn't buy any F35's and instead develops a navalised Typhoon.
Of course, there are good points and bad points to that:
Good:
* The Typhoon is faster, has a longer range and in every regard except for stealth/low radar visibility outperforms the F35
* We won't be dependant on the USA in the slightest
Bad:
* It will take time and lots of money to develop a navalised Typhoon
* The Typhoon isn't capable of VTOL (useful for the current Invincible class carriers, not so much for the new QE class carriers)
* A navalised Typhoon will cost more maintenance wise than an F35 for carrier usage. (think wear and tear, landing vertically with a nice lift fan doesn't damage an aircraft airframe or under carriage anyway near as bad as an arrestor hook landing)
I wonder how you're meant to then apply updates to the machine?
There are a few ways normally to get them:
* Windows/Microsoft Update
* Automatic updates direct from MS
* Automatic updates from a WSUS server
* Manually downloaded and installed (major hassle, especially for a fresh install)
Also, don't certain updates require GUI interaction from the user? (from my memory Sharepoint had a gui installer that you had to faff around a bit to install an update). Although a lot of updates you can install from the command line. I've not tested server 2008, it'll be interesting to see what solution MS have come up with for installing updates in some kind of managed fashion.
He didn't say they aren't gaining any ground, he said can't win. The only reason Firefox is gaining ground is because a lot of technically savvy people got fed up of five years of Internet Explorer stagnation and moved to something that's better.
Firefox won't win against IE because of the simple fact that Microsoft make IE the default on Windows. What Firefox will do is get a decently significant share of web browser market thereby forcing MS to actually make a decent browser via competition.
Firefox won't get rid of IE, it's here to stay and will likely always have a larger user base than Firefox (on windows). Hence Firefox won't win against IE because IE is the default on Windows.
(Warning slightly ranting bit ahead) However, i'm not so sure on things like desktop search. On my desktop pc I have Windows XP and Vista in a dual boot setup, granted I rarely boot into Vista. But when I do, I use the Vista default search rather than the search indexer I use on XP. (Copernic) Take from that what you will. I wish MS would make it so a third party can plug into that search box on the start menu, because frankly on Vista it just looks kinda silly having two search boxes. If I end up using Vista on my desktop pc as I expect to be dragged screaming and kicking to do. Then I expect to be annoyed by the fact that the MS indexer probably won't index things like the Firefox history, favourites or say Thunderbird emails.
I'd think applications like Office, Photoshop and vast amounts of games might play a little bit into peoples decisions too.
Disclaimer:
- Has XP and Vista on my desktop pc
- Has a Macbook Pro with a XP bootcamp partition for games (I need Oblivion)
- Played with various Linux distros on the desktop since around SuSE Linux 6.1, nothing has stood out to me thus far for the desktop
- I use Linux on servers when it's appropriate, for example a fileserver running netatalk for os x machines and samba for windows machines
The counter solution to this is for a big company like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (yes, Microsoft) should offer either their servers, hosting, bandwidth etc. To these sites that are quite evidently being successful against the scammers. Or at the least they could give the sites some cash injections to buy more capable servers, fatter lines etc.
There is a teapot orbiting Jupiter at this very moment, I believe it so it must be true!
You don't have any proof to counter that there isn't a teapot orbiting Jupiter, therefore it's true!
I love to bash Microsoft as much as the next guy, but have you ever used or setup a windows/citrix terminal server?
Terminal services on Windows is stupidly easy to install, setup and run. Not only that but i've never had problems with it. If you honestly think LTSP is easier to install and setup than then explain this long winded installation guide. Then install say windows server in a vm and run terminal services and compare how easy it is to install and setup.
People like you screw up the cause of Linux advocacy by lying through their teeth, because all it will do is people will try it out, get frustrated then go back to Windows and complain about "how much linux sucks" to their friends.
Lying or sugar coating it simply screws it up for those of us trying to gently push people away from Microsoft and other expensive solutions.
It is not the government, it's the party that wants to be in government but isn't.
The conservatives have always been big businesses bitches and this simply reiterates it.
This is why any self respecting geek should avoid voting conservative (think of them as the republicans, only slightly less insane).. hell, it's pretty hard to tell the conservatives and labour apart nowadays. Lib Dems or the Greens are probably the best parties if you want a slightly (ever so slightly, lets face facts pretty much all parties suck) better government.
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart] Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: What? Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead. The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead. Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not. The Dead Collector: He isn't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better. Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment. The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby. The Dead Collector: I can't take him. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine. Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor. The Dead Collector: I can't. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long. The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today. Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round? The Dead Collector: Thursday. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk. Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do? The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club] Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much. The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday. Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
(This is a repost of something I posted a while back that I think is relevant for this discussion)
I once got into an argument with a former ISP admin.
It went along the lines of this:
Him: You can't just download massive amounts of data from bittorrent etc.
Me: Why not? All the ISP's talk about "unlimited" broadband, by that very definition they aren't limiting it.
Him: But they have to pay for that bandwidth.
Me: Yeah? And I pay for them to provide me a service that is unlimited as advertised, if they're complaining now about how people are using more bandwidth than they expected then that's too bad. They advertised it as unlimited (something a LOT of UK ISP's do), and now they're complaining? They've only got themselves to blame.
Long story short, all these ISPs who are whinging only have themselves to blame. They hark on about "SUPER FAST BROADBAND1!!1!! WITH NO LIMITS!!!11!!" and then they discover that people actually use it?
Idiots.
Somewhat stupidly she has an 825KB JPEG at the top of the page, it seems as though she isn't too bright and has used 100% quality and is simply resizing it to a lower res in the browser. (actual image size is 2880x659, she's resizing it in the html to 1032x208)
Plus, i've seen better things than that site in my toilet after a particularly spicy dinner.
I think this is a case of somebody who is totally ignorant of pretty much everything internet wise, the lack of knowledge put into the site design, images etc. Indicates such.
You forgot that Macbooks come with 802.11n capable wifi ability. (via a free firmware update)
To my knowledge most current laptops are are 802.11b/g capable only.
So therefore a competing pc laptop would also need to be 802.11n capable too.
But if one of your servicemen commits a crime of negligence in war the US government won't be so helping and will withhold footage and deny it even exists instead.
The US troops may be all willing to go to war to help friendly countries like the UK, but your governments actions say otherwise unless it's in their interests.
I have a minor niggle with the latter part of your mentioning about Vista and OS X.
As I mentioned last year I have now bought a Macbook and owned it for roughly a couple of months.
I used Vista quite a bit during its beta/rc stages and then a bit when it got released. I'd just like to say that after having used both for a decent while that Vista may be equal in features but those features are poorly implemented. Case in point the control panel, it has been mutated into a monster.. it's nigh on impossible to find the settings you want to change without faffing about. Eventually I just turn on the classic view for control panel and make do with that.
Then contrast that with system preferences on OS X where it's well thought out without a million and one options in your face or having to go digging for some minor niggle that you want to disable or change.
This is what I hate about modern advertising, you often don't even know it's advertising. So you can no longer trust anything you read.
Take for example company shills on forums who are paid to give positive opinions. How can you tell?
At least with tv or video you could mute it, turn it off or fast forward past it. Nowadays you don't even know it's advertising.
On a more serious note, submariners do not spend the entirety of the time submerged away from civilisation. They probably spend at the absolute most a month outside of human contact at sea. Remember while a nuclear submarine can run damn near indefinitely (until the uranium/plutonium runs out) the food supply cannot last indefinitely. You'll have stop off's at friendly ports to resupply, get r&r etc.
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I'm not so sure, I mean.. I have a couple of games that make use of DX10 (Crysis & Bioshock) and yet I run them under XP. The only way for me to run them in fancy DX10 graphics mode would make things into a slideshow because of a simple issue in that the only DX10 capable graphics chipset I have is on my Macbook Pro. (256MB 8600M GT, use bootcamp for games)
Frankly, the only people who're seeing any advantage of DX10 are those with outrageously highend systems. (my desktop machine is decently highend, but that has a DX9 card in it.. 512MB X1900XTX)
I haven't yet seen any large amount of people move over to Vista, even those who have the midrange DX10 cards. While people will go over to Vista eventually I just don't see it happening until we start seeing games en masse coming out that are DX10 only.
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But how would I make gold from selling clam meat then?
Navalised Typhoons are the backup plan in-case the Americans don't come through with the F-35's flight system software, which they are somewhat bizarrely not handing over. I heard there was some progress but it all seems to have gone somewhat quiet of recent.
Apparently the UK has plans to develop a navalised Typhoon, but plans are very different from an actual plane. So, in otherwords.. if the UK doesn't get the flight software for the F35 then the UK pulls out of the JSF program, doesn't buy any F35's and instead develops a navalised Typhoon.
Of course, there are good points and bad points to that:
Good:
* The Typhoon is faster, has a longer range and in every regard except for stealth/low radar visibility outperforms the F35
* We won't be dependant on the USA in the slightest
Bad:
* It will take time and lots of money to develop a navalised Typhoon
* The Typhoon isn't capable of VTOL (useful for the current Invincible class carriers, not so much for the new QE class carriers)
* A navalised Typhoon will cost more maintenance wise than an F35 for carrier usage. (think wear and tear, landing vertically with a nice lift fan doesn't damage an aircraft airframe or under carriage anyway near as bad as an arrestor hook landing)
But that means buying him a sack. And frankly I don't think he'd get into it no matter how nicely they asked.
I wonder how you're meant to then apply updates to the machine?
There are a few ways normally to get them:
* Windows/Microsoft Update
* Automatic updates direct from MS
* Automatic updates from a WSUS server
* Manually downloaded and installed (major hassle, especially for a fresh install)
Also, don't certain updates require GUI interaction from the user? (from my memory Sharepoint had a gui installer that you had to faff around a bit to install an update). Although a lot of updates you can install from the command line. I've not tested server 2008, it'll be interesting to see what solution MS have come up with for installing updates in some kind of managed fashion.
He didn't say they aren't gaining any ground, he said can't win. The only reason Firefox is gaining ground is because a lot of technically savvy people got fed up of five years of Internet Explorer stagnation and moved to something that's better.
Firefox won't win against IE because of the simple fact that Microsoft make IE the default on Windows. What Firefox will do is get a decently significant share of web browser market thereby forcing MS to actually make a decent browser via competition.
Firefox won't get rid of IE, it's here to stay and will likely always have a larger user base than Firefox (on windows). Hence Firefox won't win against IE because IE is the default on Windows.
(Warning slightly ranting bit ahead) However, i'm not so sure on things like desktop search. On my desktop pc I have Windows XP and Vista in a dual boot setup, granted I rarely boot into Vista.
But when I do, I use the Vista default search rather than the search indexer I use on XP. (Copernic) Take from that what you will. I wish MS would make it so a third party can plug into that search box on the start menu, because frankly on Vista it just looks kinda silly having two search boxes. If I end up using Vista on my desktop pc as I expect to be dragged screaming and kicking to do. Then I expect to be annoyed by the fact that the MS indexer probably won't index things like the Firefox history, favourites or say Thunderbird emails.
I'd think applications like Office, Photoshop and vast amounts of games might play a little bit into peoples decisions too.
Disclaimer:
- Has XP and Vista on my desktop pc
- Has a Macbook Pro with a XP bootcamp partition for games (I need Oblivion)
- Played with various Linux distros on the desktop since around SuSE Linux 6.1, nothing has stood out to me thus far for the desktop
- I use Linux on servers when it's appropriate, for example a fileserver running netatalk for os x machines and samba for windows machines
The counter solution to this is for a big company like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft (yes, Microsoft) should offer either their servers, hosting, bandwidth etc. To these sites that are quite evidently being successful against the scammers. Or at the least they could give the sites some cash injections to buy more capable servers, fatter lines etc.
There is a teapot orbiting Jupiter at this very moment, I believe it so it must be true!
You don't have any proof to counter that there isn't a teapot orbiting Jupiter, therefore it's true!
Same here! But what are we going to do with a Norwegian sailor, a tennis ball and a horse?
I love to bash Microsoft as much as the next guy, but have you ever used or setup a windows/citrix terminal server?
Terminal services on Windows is stupidly easy to install, setup and run. Not only that but i've never had problems with it. If you honestly think LTSP is easier to install and setup than then explain this long winded installation guide. Then install say windows server in a vm and run terminal services and compare how easy it is to install and setup.
People like you screw up the cause of Linux advocacy by lying through their teeth, because all it will do is people will try it out, get frustrated then go back to Windows and complain about "how much linux sucks" to their friends.
Lying or sugar coating it simply screws it up for those of us trying to gently push people away from Microsoft and other expensive solutions.
It is not the government, it's the party that wants to be in government but isn't.
The conservatives have always been big businesses bitches and this simply reiterates it.
This is why any self respecting geek should avoid voting conservative (think of them as the republicans, only slightly less insane).. hell, it's pretty hard to tell the conservatives and labour apart nowadays. Lib Dems or the Greens are probably the best parties if you want a slightly (ever so slightly, lets face facts pretty much all parties suck) better government.
For some reason this reminds me of something...
The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
[a man puts a body on the cart]
Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one.
The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: What?
Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There's your ninepence.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead.
The Dead Collector: 'Ere, he says he's not dead.
Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not.
The Dead Collector: He isn't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he's very ill.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm getting better.
Large Man with Dead Body: No you're not, you'll be stone dead in a moment.
The Dead Collector: Well, I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I don't want to go on the cart.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, don't be such a baby.
The Dead Collector: I can't take him.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel fine.
Large Man with Dead Body: Oh, do me a favor.
The Dead Collector: I can't.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, can you hang around for a couple of minutes? He won't be long.
The Dead Collector: I promised I'd be at the Robinsons'. They've lost nine today.
Large Man with Dead Body: Well, when's your next round?
The Dead Collector: Thursday.
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I think I'll go for a walk.
Large Man with Dead Body: You're not fooling anyone, you know. Isn't there anything you could do?
The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I feel happy. I feel happy.
[the Dead Collector glances up and down the street furtively, then silences the Body with his a whack of his club]
Large Man with Dead Body: Ah, thank you very much.
The Dead Collector: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
Large Man with Dead Body: Right.
(This is a repost of something I posted a while back that I think is relevant for this discussion)
I once got into an argument with a former ISP admin.
It went along the lines of this:
Him: You can't just download massive amounts of data from bittorrent etc.
Me: Why not? All the ISP's talk about "unlimited" broadband, by that very definition they aren't limiting it.
Him: But they have to pay for that bandwidth.
Me: Yeah? And I pay for them to provide me a service that is unlimited as advertised, if they're complaining now about how people are using more bandwidth than they expected then that's too bad. They advertised it as unlimited (something a LOT of UK ISP's do), and now they're complaining? They've only got themselves to blame.
Long story short, all these ISPs who are whinging only have themselves to blame. They hark on about "SUPER FAST BROADBAND1!!1!! WITH NO LIMITS!!!11!!" and then they discover that people actually use it?
Idiots.
Or Zak.
What is this, digg?
Post the actual link rather than your (or someone elses) blog in hopes of getting ad revenue.
You're mistaking American for Scottish there.
Mmmm, deep fried mars bar.
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Are Here and her site in question is here.
Somewhat stupidly she has an 825KB JPEG at the top of the page, it seems as though she isn't too bright and has used 100% quality and is simply resizing it to a lower res in the browser. (actual image size is 2880x659, she's resizing it in the html to 1032x208)
Plus, i've seen better things than that site in my toilet after a particularly spicy dinner.
I think this is a case of somebody who is totally ignorant of pretty much everything internet wise, the lack of knowledge put into the site design, images etc. Indicates such.
You forgot that Macbooks come with 802.11n capable wifi ability. (via a free firmware update) To my knowledge most current laptops are are 802.11b/g capable only. So therefore a competing pc laptop would also need to be 802.11n capable too.
But if one of your servicemen commits a crime of negligence in war the US government won't be so helping and will withhold footage and deny it even exists instead.
The US troops may be all willing to go to war to help friendly countries like the UK, but your governments actions say otherwise unless it's in their interests.
I have a minor niggle with the latter part of your mentioning about Vista and OS X. As I mentioned last year I have now bought a Macbook and owned it for roughly a couple of months.
I used Vista quite a bit during its beta/rc stages and then a bit when it got released. I'd just like to say that after having used both for a decent while that Vista may be equal in features but those features are poorly implemented. Case in point the control panel, it has been mutated into a monster.. it's nigh on impossible to find the settings you want to change without faffing about. Eventually I just turn on the classic view for control panel and make do with that.
Then contrast that with system preferences on OS X where it's well thought out without a million and one options in your face or having to go digging for some minor niggle that you want to disable or change.
Sorry, but it's in books too.
This is what I hate about modern advertising, you often don't even know it's advertising. So you can no longer trust anything you read.
Take for example company shills on forums who are paid to give positive opinions. How can you tell?
At least with tv or video you could mute it, turn it off or fast forward past it. Nowadays you don't even know it's advertising.
"In the navy..."
On a more serious note, submariners do not spend the entirety of the time submerged away from civilisation. They probably spend at the absolute most a month outside of human contact at sea. Remember while a nuclear submarine can run damn near indefinitely (until the uranium/plutonium runs out) the food supply cannot last indefinitely. You'll have stop off's at friendly ports to resupply, get r&r etc.